NHAI & CPWD EOT Software for Planning Engineers

THE DESK · PLANNING ENGINEER / DGM CONTRACTS

The hindrance register is the whole game. Most of it is reconstructed too late.

RECONSTRUCTIONHindrance histories rebuilt months laterLand handover delays, pending drawings, and utility shifting all get logged somewhere, but rarely in one place, with dates, until an EOT submission forces a scramble.
WEEKLY PRESSUREManagement asks for claim status every weekWithout a live register, that question means re-checking scattered files each time instead of pointing to a dashboard.
LATE EXPERTSConsultants arrive only at arbitration, years laterBy then the contemporaneous record that would have won the point is gone, and reconstruction from memory rarely survives scrutiny.
AUTHORITY SCRUTINYNHAI is investing heavily in its own documentationRecent arbitration awards show NHAI successfully defending large claims using digital, contemporaneous project records. An under-documented contractor claim meets an increasingly well-documented Authority position.

2026 IN INDIAN HIGHWAY ARBITRATION

The Authority is out-documenting contractors

A run of 2026 arbitration awards illustrates the pattern plainly. These are public results reported in the trade press, cited below.

Project	Contractor claim	Award
Bareilly–Sitapur BOT, Uttar Pradesh	Rs 3,177 Cr (30 claims)	Rs 46 Cr plus interest
Kamrej–Chalthan, NH-48 Gujarat	Rs 174.49 Cr	Rs 54 lakh
Panipat–Jalandhar Highway	Rs 8,375 Cr	Rs 819.96 Cr (net of NHAI counterclaim)
Tumkur–Chitradurga, Karnataka	:	Rs 1,202 Cr awarded to NHAI

NHAI has publicly attributed these outcomes to digital project monitoring and strong contemporaneous documentation. A January 2026 circular also removed arbitration as a dispute route for claims above Rs 10 crore, pushing more disputes toward earlier, better-evidenced conciliation. Contracts issued by NHAI, CPWD, and other public authorities commonly treat timely written notice as a condition precedent, and a notice window as short as 7, 14, or 15 days is enough to extinguish an otherwise valid claim. The lesson for contractors is the same either way: the register you keep from day one is what decides the outcome, not the argument you make at the end.

HOW IT WORKS FOR YOUR DESK

Hindrance register, in the format the AE recognizes

Sl. No., description, date of occurrence, date of removal, period, responsible agency, remarks, and Authority Engineer countersignature status, one-click export.

Dual clock for the same event

A notified hindrance and a separate authority correspondence trail are tracked together, so nothing falls out of sync between your internal log and your outbound letters.

EOT applications in authority style

Formal letter format with reference numbering conventions your team already uses, not a generic Western claim template relabelled.

PRICING · INDIA

Priced the way Indian infra budgets actually work

Plan	Price	What's included
48-hour draft (pilot)	Rs 25,000	Same offer, repriced to Indian consultant economics
Per-claim standard	Rs 50,000–1,00,000	Still far below arbitration-stage expert fees
Company Annual	Rs 2,40,000–4,80,000/yr	Hindrance register, deadline engine, and 4 drafts included, sold per company, unlimited users
Per-project	Rs 60,000–1,00,000/yr	Matches how Indian contractors budget: project-wise rather than company-wise

QUERIES FROM PLANNING ENGINEERS

Asked in every first call

Does the hindrance register export match what our Authority Engineer expects to see?

Yes. The export format mirrors standard Indian hindrance register practice: Sl. No., description, dates of occurrence and removal, period, responsible agency, remarks, and AE countersignature status.

We work on both NHAI EPC and CPWD projects. Does the format change?

Each project carries its own contract family profile, so an EOT application drafted for an NHAI EPC package looks like an authority letter with a hindrance annexure, while a CPWD project follows that form's own extension-application conventions.

Our records are in binders and shared drives, not one system.

That is the normal starting point. Upload what exists in whatever form it is in; the register and evidence locker are built to absorb scattered records, not require a clean system first.

Is this only useful once a dispute is already brewing?

The opposite. It is most valuable from day one of a package, logging hindrances as they happen, because a contemporaneous record beats a reconstructed one every time, and that gap is exactly what recent arbitration awards have turned on.

CERTIFICATIONS OF CONDUCT

Why you can put your name near it

Draft for expert review

DraftMyEOT is not a law firm and never claims to be. Every output is a draft, built to be reviewed and signed by your contracts lead or consultant.

Nothing invented, ever

No dates, events, or clause numbers appear that you did not supply. Every paragraph shows the evidence reference it was built from.

Your data, walled off

Each company's workspace is isolated, documents sit in private storage, and consultants see only the project they were invited to.

Send your next NHAI or CPWD package

Send a contract, your delay events, and whatever records exist, tidy or not. A structured draft comes back in 48 hours.

Project

Highway, metro, or rail EPC package, any stage

Deliverable

EOT claim draft · notice status check · evidence gap list · annexure pack

Rev / Status

REV A · DRAFT FOR EXPERT REVIEW

Issued within

48 hours

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Built for the person who owns the hindrance register.